How do you boot Puppy Linux Slacko (or Precise or Wary) into the command line? I wish to startx only if I need it. Unfortunately it does not seem to copy Slackware's traditional /etc/inittab runlevel methodology.

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I don't know Puppy Linux, but it should be possible to get a multiuser without X runlevel/target appending 3 to the kernel boot line. In any case, appending 1 or s should get singleuser (maintenance) level anyway. This post seems to imply that starting X is done "by hand" in /etc/profile, check that one (read that file and possibly comment out the line)

In Fedora at least (systemd now, was upstart until recently) the /etc/inittab file is used, but only to define default runlevel (even though systemd doesn't use runlevels' per se).
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vonbrandFeb 12 '13 at 23:01

The two systems I am comfortable with inittab (in Slackware and Redhat Enterprise Linux) and Ubuntu (?upstart) are definitely NOT similar.
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hazizFeb 13 '13 at 0:17

some of them i don't know which or both, if you ls, you can see inittab, but they just keep this file as traditional, not applicable.
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Mohsen PahlevanzadehFeb 13 '13 at 4:35